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    Ebola outbreak confirmed

    Death toll 64 and rising on Congo-Gabon border.

    BBC NEWS | Africa | Congo Ebola outbreak confirmed
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2776719.stm
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    Forget war. There are things lurking in that jungle that make any dictator look like a gurgling baby. If one of them turns out to be an airborne Ebola strain that hits humans, we're in very big trouble. It's Lucifer's hammer.
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    bah, I've got enough duck tape and plastic sheeting to take care of that.
    To us, it is the BEAST.

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    • #3
      The thing about ebola is it tends to burn through its victims rather quickly. It never spreads very far.
      Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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      • #4
        Originally posted by chegitz guevara
        The thing about ebola is it tends to burn through its victims rather quickly. It never spreads very far.
        Laz is worried about a lethal version of the Reston strain.
        I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
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        • #5
          With aerosol/contact contagion, that's because the kill-rate exceeds the contamination rate. With an airborne strain, that ratio would be reversed. Hello pandemic.
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          • #6
            Why would there be an airborne strain?
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            • #7
              Why wouldn't there be?
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              • #8
                Originally posted by chegitz guevara
                Why would there be an airborne strain?
                Nature likes to keep us on our toes.
                I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                • #9
                  The human overpopulation of the planet must eventually be corrected by nature. Some people will survive whatever eventually hits, I just hope Mick Jagger isn't one of them.
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                  • #10
                    AFAIK, this virus doesn't mutate very much.
                    Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                    • #11
                      Possibilites are endless.
                      Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
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                      He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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                      • #12
                        Why would there be an airborne strain?


                        Why wouldn't there be? With the way most viruses mutate, I'd be suprised if a lethal, airborne strain of Ebola didn't appear in time...

                        edit: Drat! Laz beat me to the punch with the exact same response...
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by chegitz guevara
                          AFAIK, this virus doesn't mutate very much.
                          What can I tell you che? Ebola Reston gave the people at USAMRIID quite a scare when they found it so close to Washington.
                          I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                          For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by chegitz guevara
                            AFAIK, this virus doesn't mutate very much.
                            There are at least 3 known aerosol strains lethal to humans. There's one known airborne strain lethal to moneys. There have only been a relative few outbreaks in the last 30 years to identify them, yet we know of several strains.

                            I don't like those numbers.
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                            • #15
                              Some people watched the movie Outbreak and think they know it all.
                              To us, it is the BEAST.

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